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Because this is an inflection point of sorts on this part of the Twilight Override tour, I'm going to jump ahead and post this Chicago recap now. But rest assured I will eventually get all caught up with the other shows from the tour that haven't been addressed here yet... Complete setlist, as played: Betrayed One Tiny Flower Caught Up In The Past Parking Lot Forever Never Ends This Is How It Ends World Away Low Key KC Rain (No Wonder) Mirror Gwendolyn Stray Cats In Spain Out In The Dark Ain’t It A Shame Flo

Complete setlist, as played: Western Clear Skies Betrayed One Tiny Flower Caught Up In The Past Cry Baby Cry Forever Never Ends This Is How It Ends Low Key Evergreen Mirror Stray Cats In Spain Out In The Dark KC Rain (No Wonder) New Orleans Guess Again Feel Free Lou Reed Was My Babysitter Amar Bharati World Away Half-Asleep --------------------------------------------- Twilight Override Diamond Light Pt.1 Helpless [Neil Young; recorded by Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young]

Because I’ve been such a laggard in keeping up with these first shows of the Twilight Override era — in the interest of transparency, I’m writing this three full weeks after the first “real” (i.e., headlining) gig of the tour — and because I haven’t been able to attend as many of them as I usually do, I’m changing up my recap format a bit and trying something new. Or actually old. If you came of age in or are a consumer of old-fashioned newspaper journalism as I did and am, you will probably recognize a version of the tried-and-true “notes column” in what follows. I think this format will

I didn't make it out to San Francisco in person, but I did watch this show via the live stream...so it almost felt like I was there. But not quite. Anyway, I guess this was the first real show of the Twilight Override era in that it was the first one with the full band playing songs from the album that anyone — and literally anyone, since it's free — could attend. The roughly 65-minute set took place on the Towers Of Gold stage on the second day of the three-day event and, from what I could see, featured a pretty sizable crowd. Here was the complete setlist, as played:

On a Sunday afternoon/evening after a Cubs game — an especially brutal loss, as I recall — Jeff headlined the third annual JCC Chicago Growing Hope concert in the Gallagher Way space outside Wrigley Field. JCC Chicago is a Jewish community organization (the largest Jewish community center in North America, according to its Web site), so it was a natural fit for Jeff to perform solo alongside a number of other artists "to celebrate hope, community, and the transformative power of music," according to a press release. An estimated 2,000 people attended the event — though not me, sadly.

Another Jeff solo set, headlining the three-day Ellnora Guitar Festival at the University Of Illinois. Was anybody on here there? Here was the complete setlist, as played, according to Wilcoworld: Story To Tell I Am Trying To Break Your Heart Feel Free Please Tell My Brother Enough KC Rain (No Wonder) Stray Cats In Spain A Lifetime To Find Impossible Germany Country Song Upside-Down Laminated Cat (aka Not For The Season) Love Is For Love New Madrid Lou Reed Was My Babysitter

OK, this site isn't dead yet...lol. Let the housekeeping begin. Here was the complete setlist, as played, for Jeff's solo headlining set at this year's ICSF, courtesy of the folks at Wilcoworld: Story To Tell KC Rain (No Wonder) Feel Free Enough Having Been Is No Way To Be Gwendolyn I Am Trying To Break Your Heart Family Ghost Forever Never Ends Stray Cats In Spain A Lifetime To Find Please Tell My Brother I'm Always In Love New Madrid Impossible Germany Country Song Upside-Down Laminated Ca

Excellent summation, as always. Might want to change “Casey Oats” to Case Oats, but otherwise no notes. #PukeyPromSong and #ArmInTheAirSong forever!

Thanks a lot for chiming in, Rob! Better late than never. And great photos, as always. Definitely helped give a sense of the room and the vibe of the show!

“We’ll see you next year,” Jeff said, giving one last wave to the capacity crowd at the Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium as he left the stage with his bandmates for the final time in 2025. Truth be told, I think the Edmonton audience probably would be thrilled if Wilco did return next year since it had surprisingly (amazingly?) been more than 15 years since the band’s last show in town. And of course, Jeff probably will be back this way sometime in 2026 as he now turns his attention to supporting his forthcoming Twilight Override solo release. But I think, in some way, he was maybe speaking

Sadly couldn't make this one, as I had a prior commitment with another Canadian — Uncle Neil — back in Chicago. Heard from a couple sources that it was a bit of an odd gig, though, in the sense that it was theoretically part of the "August Evening With..." tour and thus people thought that the usual two-set, 30-something-song performance was forthcoming. But instead it simply turned into a "standard" set — and kind of a short one at that — with a brief encore. I guess more than a few attendees were miffed, including our resident Kentuckian. Hopefully he'll chime in with a few more

SOMEONE DID MENTION IT, NOT IN THAT WAY EXACTLY BUT STILL. HE GOT THE HUMOUR I THINK, BUT STILL WAS MOST LIKELY NOT IN THE JOKIEST OF MOODS. FFS! Pat and the Penguins. Good doo-wop group, or so I hear. (Sea)-Ta(c) Airport.

Birthdays…who needs ‘em? Amirite? I write this as someone whose own birthday is rapidly approaching, but even if Jeff hadn’t already expressed his indifference toward his birthday on his most recent Substack post, I think he would probably be inclined to agree after he spent his 58th working with Wilco on the second night of a two-night stand at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle. After taking the stage to a front row of people wearing party hats, blowing noisemakers and holding up letters spelling out “Happy Birthday, Jeff” — I’m not even going to get into the clueless local televis

I don’t know how well this will work, but here’s a shot of Jeff holding the aforementioned bread…

Imagine, if you will, a movie poster from a 1950s sci-fi B-movie called “The Sourdough That Took Over Seattle” or something like that with a sourdough round perhaps taking the place of a flying saucer and descending upon, say, Woodland Park Zoo. I can see it, and I think it could be a hit! (Or maybe I’ve just gone to too many shows now and I’m starting to go a little crazy. Who can say?) Anyway, I bring up this wacky image because on the first night of two sold-out shows by Jeff and his bandmates at Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo, a sourdough round stamped with “Wilco” did indeed thre

Tony or Joe?

Have we reached that point in a given tour when it’s not so much about what songs Jeff and his bandmates play as much as how they play them? It’s just one schlub’s opinion, of course, but I kind of think we have — and for one night anyway, I’m here for it. It’s liberating, at least once in a while, to just enjoy the actual performance itself and be present for each moment and not worry so much about repertoire or anything else. So it was at the scenic KettleHouse Amphitheater, a 4,000-capacity outdoor venue on the banks of the Blackfoot River east of Missoula. Like many amphitheate

From an amphitheater near a beach on Long Island to the top of a mountain in Wyoming to a zoo in Seattle, I guess there’s just about no type of place that Wilco isn’t covering on this coast-to-coast “An August Evening With…” tour. And for tonight’s stop, we bring you to a park in the middle of a small city in Utah that the band has never played before in more than 30 years of touring. To be fair, Ogden is only about a 45-minute drive north of Salt Lake City, where Jeff and his bandmates have played many times over the years and I’m sure that plenty of folks at tonight’s show had pr

I knew I shouldn’t have cut out that bit about the teensy (A cup?) teeter-totter…

If a rock band plays a show on top of a mountain and hardly anyone stays until the end to see it, does it even count? To paraphrase that old philosophical conundrum, that question must have entered Jeff’s mind during the later stages of Wilco’s show atop Snow King Mountain tonight when he looked out at what remained of the audience and realized that a significant portion of it had split to catch the gondola back to the base. Let’s rewind a bit to set the scene. As part of a summer series of concerts atop the nearly 8,000-foot peak, Wilco’s latest stop on its “An August Evening With

Now this was a show I would have loved to have made it to because I'm sure Vail is lovely in the summer and I used to go there in the winter with my family many moons ago. Anyway, when it comes to Wilco shows in Vail, I always think of the previous one in December 2012 (as part of the Vail Snow Daze festival) when the temperature was about 10 degrees Fahrenheit and the wind chill was maybe -10. I honestly don't know how anyone who had to play a stringed instrument made music come out of one that night. Who had the brilliant idea to play a nighttime outdoor show in the mountains in December?

More housekeeping, since I wasn't able to make it to Mission Ballroom this time around. It's a fairly large indoor venue of the sort that you'll find in many cities these days with a wide general admission floor and reserved seating (I think) in the mezzanine level. And being a Saturday night, I'm sure there was quite a lively crowd in attendance...hopefully someone will chime in with some more thoughts/observations/etc. For now, here was complete setlist as played, according to the Wilcoworld minders (having seen photos of the printed setlists on social media, I feel fairly confid

Couldn't make it to KC this time, which is unfortunate for my barbecue-loving stomach as well as my penchant for record shopping whilst on tour. But I feel like Wilco has pretty much found a home in the city with this gig at the Midland being its fourth show there since 2017 (and fifth in KC overall since then, if you count a short performance backstage at Crossroads that was live streamed after the band's co-headlining performance with Sleater-Kinney there in 2021 got wiped out due to inclement weather). Anyway, if anyone who attended this outing at the Midland is so inclined to p

Just catching up on some housekeeping duties here, since I had to sit this one out. I don't expect anyone on here to have attended this show in an extremely tertiary market, but if anyone did and feels like chiming in, please do. I mainly am wondering if Jeff had anything to say about the band's last appearance (I'm pretty sure) in Springfield. When I saw the southwestern Missouri city on the list of tour stops for this "August Evening With..." run, my first thought was that it only took about 20 years for the band to get back there after one of the most infamous incidents in Wilco

Well, sadly, I had to sit this one out, so I can't offer any firsthand reportage. But I do know that at least one VCer was there who can, so hopefully that person will chime in at some point and give us some more details. I have actually been to the (very creatively named) Factory before, though, so I know that it's a relatively spacious indoor venue outside of St. Louis with a wide, open floor. Here was the complete setlist, as played, according to the good folks over at Wilcoworld (as usual, their system seems unable to delineate where the set break happens but I'm going to rely